gindling wrote:Ive got a Compass .Dat file with numerous separate surveys and I am trying to isolate five of them to make a line plot of only those five so I can use it to draft a map of that portion of the cave. With the Cave Editor open and showing the list of surveys is there a way to copy and paste from this list into a new .Dat file? I highlighted one of the surveys and went into Edit Survey but I cant figure out how to highlight all cells and then copy and paste.
Compass help files:
Copying Or Moving Surveys Between FilesThese instructions are relative to the survey manipulation dialog, which you access from the Project Manager's
Edit -> Manipulate Surveys menu.
Be aware that if you break the cave up into multiple .DAT files, and they are joined by multiple linked stations so that loop closure affects them across the major portions of your cave, then the lineplot produced from a single .DAT may not be accurate! In that case, you'll only have full loop closure applied to your subsection of the cave when compiled from the project's .MAK file.
In other words, I think you're asking the wrong question...
What I would do for cartography is to simply compile the entire cave, then load the .PLT file into the
Compass SVG Exporter. Click the
Exclude Surveys/Stations checkbox, and simply mark which surveys you want to include in your exported SVG file. Loop closure is already applied to the entire cave, you can fix the scale and paper size for importing directly into Illustrator or Inkscape exactly as you want your sub-map to look, and it supports round-tripping. All without mucking up your project's survey files.
That said, for large caves, it makes perfect sense to organize portions of the cave into smaller .DAT files for other reasons.